24 Quotes by Rufus Choate

A book is the only immortality

A book is the only immortality.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.